DOE Selects 5 Companies for Exascale Computing R&D Program

Five companies have won U.S. Energy Department contracts worth $24.5 million combined to research and develop interconnect technologies intended to support high-performance computing.

IBM, Intel Federal, AMD, Cray and NVIDIA will design architectures that can be used as building blocks for supercomputers for energy, national security and scientific applications, the DOE’s National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center said Friday.

“In an era of fierce international HPC competition, the development of exascale computing becomes critical not only to our national security missions but to the nation’s economic competitiveness in the global marketplace,” said said William Harrod, a DOE program manager and research division director.

“This partnership between industry, the DOE Office of Science and National Nuclear Security Administration supports the development of technology to overcome the obstacles on the road to exascale systems,” Harrod added.

The goal of the two-year DesignForward project is to build interconnects that address efficiency and bandwidth issues as well as reduce the time it takes to move data between processors, NERSCC says.

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